Gavin Creel, the musical theater actor who won a Tony Award for "Hello, Dolly!" and an Olivier Award for "The Book of Mormon," died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.

Tony Award-winning actor Gavin Creel died at the age of 48. Creel died at his home in New York on Monday. His death was confirmed to Us Weekly by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, through a publicist. The cause of his death was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma,

Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel – songwriter, singer, and stage actor known for his roles in such productions as “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “Hair,” “She Loves Me” and “Hello, Dolly!” – died Monday, Sept. 30, at the age of 48. His death comes months after being diagnosed with an aggressive, rare cancer.